Police are looking for a man they suspect of robbing two women within a span of 30 minutes early Friday morning, then kidnapping and assaulting one of those victims.

Investigators with the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department said the assailant abducted a woman shortly after 3 a.m. near the intersection of Waldburg and Barnard streets. The woman said she was forced into her car, where she was robbed and pistol-whipped before she fought off her assailant, who was making sexual advances.

In the struggle, the woman managed to take her assailant's gun. When she tried to fire it, she found that the gun was a fake. She broke away and ran from the scene, making it to a home in the 900 block of Carol Street, where she called for help, said SCMPD spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilson.

The assailant, meanwhile, drove the woman's car to Ogeechee Road, where he ditched the vehicle and carjacked a beige Dodge Caravan Sport.

The carjacking victim then drove the first victim's vehicle to a pay telephone, where she called for help.

The assailant was last seen in the Dodge Caravan. His first victim could only describe the man as being black, standing about 6 feet tall and weighing 170 to 190 pounds. He was last seen wearing a camouflage hat and dark-colored clothing, and he might have been armed with a handgun.

The first woman who was victimized was visibly injured in the struggle. She was taken to Memorial Health University Medical Center, where she was treated and released. She is working with detectives to identify her attacker, Wilson said.

"This guy is obviously a predator," Wilson said. "It's important to us and members of our community that we identify him and get him off the street."

Anyone with information about these crimes is urged to call police at 651-6694, or call CrimeStoppers at 234-2020.